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EOHIPPUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eohippus mean? 

EOHIPPUS (noun)
  The noun EOHIPPUS has 1 sense:

1. earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animalplay

  Familiarity information: EOHIPPUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EOHIPPUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

dawn horse; eohippus

Hypernyms ("eohippus" is a kind of...):

Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

Holonyms ("eohippus" is a member of...):

genus Hyracotherium; Hyracotherium (extinct horse genus; formerly called eohippus)


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